This is an amazing salad with carrots, mint, cilantro, green onion, lime, and jalapeno and this tasty salad is vegan, gluten-free, South Beach Diet phase two, and can be Paleo with the right hot sauce.

When I spotted this shredded carrot salad from Joanne Weir in Fine Cooking Magazine, it sounded like another interesting salad combination with carrots. I ramped it up a bit, adding mint, and green onions, using more herbs, and using green Tabasco sauce in the dressing to get the jalapeno flavor throughout the salad. I love this Spicy Shredded Carrot Salad with Mint, Cilantro, Green Onion, Lime, and Jalapeno; and when my brother Rand was visiting Utah recently, he also pronounced it a keeper.

Some of you will love me and some of you will hate me for this, but I used shredded carrots from a bag, which were a bit thicker than carrots you shred yourself and give a good crunch to the salad. Naturally, you can buy whole carrots and grate them yourself if you prefer.

I used a generous amount of chopped cilantro and chopped mint in the salad, but I think you could use all mint or all cilantro as well.

Green onions are one of my favorite ingredients, and I thought they just belonged in this salad. Slice them finely so you have small pieces.

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I never thought of carrots as the main ingredient in a salad until the woman who owned a dry cleaning place around the corner from my house taught me to make Moroccan carrot salad. That really opened my eyes! (And to me, you are a genius for using shredded carrots from the market.)

Hi kalyn, haven't been commenting for a while but i keep coming here in search of yummy veggie options.:) The shredded salad with tabasco reminds me of a similar salad in Jamie Oliver's site with shredded carrots and coconut.

I was looking for a side dish to go with some grilled lamb last night and saw this posted on your web site so decided especially because of the mint that this would go really well. It was great. Maybe a touch dry but that might be because I added extra carrots. (I think I may have grated them too finely to start with so they didn't measure the right amount.)

I will definitely try this out. I recently tried a carrot salad recipe I saw on another blog, smitten kitchen. I tweaked it and added my version of the recipe on my blog. I love cilantro and jalapeno. Can't wait to taste it!

I tried this salad tonight and my family loved it. I think it will be a new staple for us since I usually have all of these ingredients on hand except for the mint. I grated my own carrots and used jalepenos and no mint.

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